Thanks, makes perfect sense why the two syntaxes are available. I think
I'll be
sticking to the long form to keep it simple and consistent for new people.
On Friday, July 25, 2014 6:30:13 AM UTC-7, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> The idea behind key=value is it makes it nice to put everything all on one
> line.
>
> yum: name=foo state=installed
>
> Which leads to more concise playbooks than the short-form YAML style
>
> yum: { name: 'foo', state: 'installed' }
>
> And is easier to type and skim.
>
> We don't care which way you do things, though if you are going to put
> things on seperate lines and use the long form, it makes sense to use the
> YAML data structure.
>
> We'll continue to use the short form for most everything until lines get
> long, or complicated structured data needs to be passed (like the cloud
> modules).
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 9:25 AM, C. Morgan Hamill <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Excerpts from Steffen Prince's message of 2014-07-25 03:24:19 -0400:
>> > Pros and cons of module argument syntax styles?
>> >
>> > INI style
>> >
>> > - module: >
>> > key1=val1
>> > key2=val2
>> > key3=val3
>> > key4=val4
>> >
>> >
>> > yaml style
>> >
>> > - module:
>> > key1: val1
>> > key2: val2
>> > key3: val3
>> > key4: val4
>>
>> Personally, I strongly prefer the latter.
>>
>> I don't think that a general case can be made for one or the other,
>> though --- just preference.
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